Benchmarks: CD Speed, Sandra 2003

CD Speed is a CD-ROM benchmark which can
test the most important features of a CD-ROM drive. In this particular test we
use a pressed Audio CD with about 65 minutes of audio on it as the test disk.
CDROM's in general have a harder time processing audio data, and hence the
results can be drastically slower than that of data tests
alone.

Gigabyte M1600A - CDSpeed Audio
Tests

Optical Drive

Gigabyte M1600A

MSI CR52M

SM-352

SW-252B

MSI CR52A-A2

Plextor W4012TA

LG 32/10/40

MSI 8340

Disc Type

Audio

Audio

Audio

Audio

Audio

Audio

Audio

Audio

Avg Speed

19.88x

23.97x

30.50x

28.29x

31.09x

8.03x

27.51x

29.58x

Random Seek Time

77ms

116ms

101ms

104ms

89ms

162ms

105ms

134ms

1/3 Seek Time

91ms

99ms

112ms

111ms

90ms

185ms

119ms

109ms

Full Seek Time

141ms

179ms

187ms

177ms

309ms

254ms

172ms

520ms

DAE Quality

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

CPU use: 1X

1%

1%

4%

1%

1%

2%

1%

1%

CPU use:2X

2%

2%

2%

2%

1%

1%

3%

1%

CPU use: 4X

5%

13%

3%

4%

3%

3%

5%

3%

CPU use: 8X

10%

100%

100%

9%

5%

69%

10%

6%

Disc Recog. Time:

9.35s

9.91s

7.54s

4s

0.48s

0.08s

6.99s

0.02s

Disc Eject Time:

3.45s

4.55s

2.8s

1.44s

2.69s

1.66s

1.55s

1.31s

Disc Load Time:

1.40s

0.92s

1.48s

1.13s

10.12

19.25s

1.28s

7.60s

Audio and
data discs are not the same, and
so it is always a good idea to test the drive with each medium. In this
test with an audio CD, we can see average read times rank in
at about 20X, which is just about middle of the pack. CPU usage stays
low, and seek times are also quite good.